Shelter Author|Michael Dennis Browne Carmen Montez

Carmen Montez

bringing Ghalib’s performance—his verse in all its orality—into the twenty-first century

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Eleven-year-old African American twins Tom and Stefan are coping with frontier life in 1860s Texas when they are suddenly separated by a Comanche Indian raid

Shelter Author|Michael Dennis Browne Carmen MontezThe word shelter invokes the importance of safety and comfort in life. Whether permanent or temporary, shelter is among the basic human rights and is also needed by plants and animals. Here poet Margaret Hasse and artist Sharon DeMark offer words and images of thirty dwellings that can be entered in the imagination, including physical structureshut, house, turtle shellsanctuaries, and common experiences such as hugging, reading a book, or playing hide